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Buying Targeted Links with PaidBacklinks

It’s not exactly a secret that quality one-way backlinks can work wonders for your search engine optimization. Submitting your site to directories and social bookmarking sites can only get so far, so how do you go about getting more links and getting your site to the top of Google for your target search term?

One method that you can try is enlisting the services of PaidBacklinks.com. As you might be able to guess from the name of the domain, Paid Backlinks sells you paid backlinks. That makes sense, doesn’t it? In this review, we’ll have a look at how it works, whether it’s worth your money, and how you can can make some of that money back.

How Does PaidBacklinks.com Work?

It’s really pretty straightforward, as you can imagine. You give them money and they give you links.

Of course, the kinds of links that you get in return are of paramount importance when it comes to a service like this. If all the links are on “link farm” sites that all use the same IP address, it’s not hard for Google to notice and take appropriate action. Thankfully, that’s not the case here.

When you buy backlinks through this service, the links come by way of a blog network. These are primarily WordPress blogs, each on different IPs and Subnets, and they span just about every possible vertical. There are tens of thousands of these blogs and new ones are added each week. Some are up to four years old.

Paid Backlinks guarantees that Google does indeed index its blog network and they’ve taken the extra step of pinging and updating the RSS feed for each and every new blog post. This helps to ensure proper indexing.

Setting Up a Campaign

The signup process is pretty much instant. You enter a name and an e-mail address. That e-mail address gets verified, you get sent a password, and you’re on your way with ten free credits. Each credit buys you one backlink. Then, you mosey over to the dashboard to start your first campaign.

For the purposes of this review, I used up my ten free credits to buy some backlinks for my fighting games blog. I targeted the keyword phrase “Street Fighter” and indicated that up to ten links could be posted per day. You can choose a daily limit between one and 20 links.

In the screenshot above, you’ll notice that the system can only “place 7 links right now.” This means the inventory is already there and for me to use up all ten credits, they’ll have to generate some new stuff with their “dynamic content pushing system.” Based on this, it sounds like many of the links you buy will be not on new posts, but on updated posts that had been previously published.

Monitoring the Campaign

After you submit a campaign, the total number of credits that the campaign requires is immediately removed from your account. Let’s say that you wanted to spend 100 credits with a maximum of 5 links per day; this campaign would then last at least 20 days. From there, you can monitor its progress through the reports.

In the reports, you can see your keyword and target URL, as well as the URL where your purchased link was published and the date it was published. That’s for accountability and all of this information can be exported as an Excel spreadsheet.

How Much Does It Cost?

The $47 Silver package buys you 179 credits, the $97 gold package nets you 439 credits, and the $147 platinum package buys 769 credits. You can work out the math yourself, but all of these packages come with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

However, you can recoup some of these costs through the affiliate program too. When you do, you earn a 40% recurring commission rate on every month that your referrals are subscribed. There are no guarantees that these backlinks will skyrocket you to the top, but the system offered here is straightforward and appears to offer decent value.

The review is pretty good. I’m not sure though that this kind of service is in accordance with what Google would approve. I think that buying links is something that could get you in trouble with Google.

For that reason I’ll stay away from it and let any links to my blog be completely natural and organic.

There are ways to get backlinks that look nice and organic, but this certainly isn’t the way to do it. If you figure out a way to get links in a sneaky sort of way, the absolute worst thing to do is share it or start a business with your idea because Google will catch on in a minute.

This would be a decent service is we could determine the length of time that we wanted the links to be spaced out. Having say 439links pop up over 30 days especially if they are all pointing to the same thing is tough. If I could ask to have that campaign spread over 2-3 months I would feel more comfortable. But then again, maybe I’m wrong.

This seems like a good idea John, but does it provide you with a printout of where the backlinks are created – so like if you were doing this for clients would you be able to show them where the backlinks are?

Unfortunately is not what I expected. I tried their 10 free backlinks. My campaign was stopped without any reason. All I can do is to guess what the reason was. I raised a ticket to find an answer…I’ll keep you informed…

I wouldn’t have thought so – to get a good commenter to do the job manually is going to take about a $1 a comment and there is no guarantee about the PR for any of the pages that person comments on – the price seems fair, it is just the practice that worries me a little bit – will Google really slap you for it?

People who have ever had to buy backlinks are sad because it means their content is not good. Furthermore buying backlinks violates SEO Ethics and will get your site nuked from the SERP’s maybe not today but eventually it will happen as Google and other search engines are putting a more proactive effort into combating spammy sites that use such SEO methods to pump traffic.

In fact I know that Google is now confirmed to be in the practice of blacklisting entire traffic exchanges and sites that sell traffic. This PaidBacklinks is yet another fly over night shanghai attempt to make some money quick on the backs of people who are naive and think they can grow their website popularity with backlinks.

I remember Google saying there’s no problem just as long as rel=nofollow is added to the links, which of course defeats the purpose of having paid links anyway. I personally don’t sell/buy links on any of my sites because it’s still too risky & I’ve never had a problem getting free backlinks naturally anyway.

Google CANT tell a paid link from a free link, it just can’t. What it can do is see the footprint left from un-natural linking. PaidBacklinks places your links on a network of crap blogs utilising thousands of different IPs and hosting accounts. Google isn’t going to pick it apart any time soon. However the biggest problem isn’t a Google penalty to your site, it’s that the blog posts your links are placed on are rarely indexed or even in some cases even crawled. There are a couple of extra steps to make the most from this system.

I tried it in the past on a few test sites, it’ll never get you to the front of Google on its own but for long tailed articles that are already indexed you’ll be surprised by just what a boost even a few keyword specific links will do (like so many services PaidBackLinks is a numbers game, post 20 and chances are you’ll get a few that stick etc)

You must be kidding. It’s not really hard to tell which sites are selling paid links. A lot of them use certain scripts to do so & Google has picked up on that already. I believe Joost De Valk even covered a post on this.

If you use UAW, MAN, FTS etc etc you are buying paid links yet NONE of the sites you are purchasing links on explicitly sell links. Sure if you say “Buy A Link From My Site” in your sidebar then Google knows it has a site where some of the links are likely paid for. A blind retarded monkey would know. But that’s so far away from what this and other link systems do.

Even if you explicitely sell links there is NO WAY for Google to determine what links from your site are paid for and what are natural. There isn’t a rel=”I paid for this” parameter.

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